In this scene from David Cronenberg's 1991 Naked Lunch, the diegetic conversation overlaps with the ultimate intra-diegetic -- inside the character's minds. Propelled into altered states by drugs and other such psychosis-inducements, telepathy becomes eerily indistinguishable from common verbal communication. Adapting the unadaptable, Cronenberg combined Burroughs' biography with that of the character's experiences in the 1959 novel Naked Lunch. With this conversation between the Tom Frost character and the protagonist Bill Lee, one cannot help but think of Joan Vollmer, Burroughs' slain wife, killed during a mishap during a game of "William Tell" in which Burroughs killed Vollmer by shooting her in the head; Burroughs was aiming for a water tumbler Vollmer was balancing on her head.